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Alternate Title: "Toughen Up, Buttercups!"
- Tonight's Beverages: Labatt's Blue for Dirk; Powerade for McHatin.
- McHatin's bad week so far vs. Dirk's unusually good day.
- A weird 1987 movie, Street Trash, that apparently McHatin didn't hallucinate, his shocking defense of Song of the South, and sitcoms across the ages.
- How to deal with being maced by the cops.
- The stupid subtitle situation on Breaking Bad DVDs.
- Report on the Blondie/X concert last week.
- Discussion of Sleepy Hollow, Under the Dome and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and how TV is a year-round activity.
- Stephanie Beatriz, the chick from Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Music from Bastion, a game and soundtrack available from the Humble Indie Bundle 9, which is available until Sept. 25.
- Dirk's early impressions of Grand Theft Auto V and the reaction to reviews that docked points for politically-correct reasons.Gamespot's review; Polygon's review; The Escapist's review.
- The dangers of Australia.
- Using past reviews against critics now.
- The Penny Arcade Dickwolves controversy and related gender wars stories:
- The original comic strip.
- An angry feminist developer's demand that PAX be boycotted.
- The Wired article where a rape survivor refused to be a victim.
- The Cards Against Humanity butthurt over PAX.
- The Adria Richards controversy from March.
- Wired: Why You Should Think Twice Before Shaming Anyone on Social Media
- The screed about Ashton Kutcher's cisgender issues.
- Food allergies. (Not gender wars, but semi-related.)
- More Bastion music.
- Movie talk: McHatin on Riddick; Dirk on Metallica: Through The Never. The Alice Cooper movie mentioned: Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper: Live 1973 - Billion Dollar Babies Tour which is a prime example of why concept stuff in concert films are inherently dumb. Also quick hits on Oz the Great & Powerful and The Bling Ring.
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